SF/F Authors at Arizona Book Festival April 4th, 1998
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If you are in the Phoenix area, you will likely see some of the publicity
for the Arizona Book Festival, which says "There's Something Here For
Everyone!". If you are a science fiction fan, there will be something
there for you presented by CASFS, the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction
Society. Check us out in booth #36, where we will have authors signing,
a free raffle with prizes such as Babylon 5 posters and an autographed
copy of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere novel and we should have some movie
related freebies as well. Here's more info on the Book Festival and the
authors CASFS is presenting:
The Arizona Book Festival - April 4, 1998
Book lovers from across the state are invited to attend the Arizona
Book Festival, set for Saturday, April 4, 1998, in the Margaret T. Hance
Deck Park (67 W. Culver St.), next to the Phoenix Public Library (1221
North Central). The event is sponsored by the Arizona Humanities
Council, with the support of numerous libraries and book organizations.
Dozens of booths will include book stores, publishers, literary groups,
organizations and associations, and various libraries.
The day-long event, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., will include book sales,
book swaps, book signings, authors' readings, book discussion,
book art demonstrations, lectures, children's activities,
living history presentations, food vendors, and more. There is no
admission fee to the Book Festival.
The Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society will have a booth at the
festival and will have many local science fiction and fantasy authors
appearing to sign their books and talk about their work. There will be
a panel discussion about Writing Science Fiction in Arizona with
several of them at 2 pm and signings will run throughout the day.
Scheduled to appear are Emily Devenport, Ernest Hogan, Daryl F. Mallett,
Pete Manly, Adam Niswander, Jennifer Roberson and John Vornholt.
Other authors include Clive Cussler, Ron Carlson, Sandra Cisneros, Kit Dee,
Connie Flynn, Gini Hartzmark, Annette Mahon, Jeremy Rowe, Sylvia Nobel,
Jean Valentine and dozens more. Other organizations exhibiting include
Tucson Writer's Project, Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime,
Poetry Central, Bilingual review, Women Writing the West, Arizona Jewish
Historical Society, OASIS, Arizona Highways, and the Cape Foundation.
Many Arizona publishers, book dealers and libraries will also have booths.
Bios on CASFS presented authors:
Emily Devenport:
Emily Devenport is the author of six novels: Shade, Larissa,
Scorpianne, EggHeads, The Kronos Condition, and GodHeads (forthcoming,
April 1998). Her short stories have appeared in Aboriginal SF, whose
readers voted her a Boomerang Award, as well as the Full Spectrum and
Asimov's SF Magazine. She is currently at work on three new novel
proposals. She is married to writer/artist Ernest Hogan.
Ernest Hogan:
Despite the Irish name Ernest Hogan is a born-in-East-L.A.
recombocultural Chicano who has climbed pyramids from Teotihuacan
to Chichen Itza. Critics called his first novel, Cortez on Jupiter,
both hard science and magic realism. His articles, short stories,
book reviews, illustrations, and cartoons have apppeared in
Amazing Stories, Different Worlds, Pulphouse, Last Wave, New Pathways,
Semiotext(e), Penthouse Hot Talk, Science Fiction Eye, and Proud
Flesh. Recently he sold an sf story to the children's magazine Spider.
His second novel, High Aztech, is about mind-altering viruses causing
holy wars in a future Mexico city. Smoking Mirror Blues, a novel
about a computerized Aztec god running amok in a futuristic Hollywood
is being contemplated by Nueva York publishers. His cybergonzo
thriller, Brainpan Fallout is available online in The Red Dog Journal
(http://www.senselessbeauty.com/hogan). Science Fiction Eye called
him an Aztec priest, but then, what do they know? Ritual music that
evokes Papa Legba has been heard coming out of his office. Research
on Mars, chaos ecology, and retribalization have resulted in a book
proposal called NeoMartians. He lives in Phoenix, with his wife
Emily Devenport. STOP THE PRESSES! THIS JUST IN: His short story
"Skin Dragons Talk" -- about a yakuza who has an under-the-skin alien
encounter on the Moon -- is in the March 1998 Science Fiction Age!
Buy it! Read it! Live it!
Daryl F. Mallett:
Daryl F. Mallett is a freelance writer and editor; a contributing
editor and series editor at The Borgo Press; series editor of SFRA Press'
Studies in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror; associate
editor of Gryphon Publications and Other Worlds Magazine; contributing
writer for Overstreet's Fan Magazine, SFRA Review and Water
Conditioning & Purification, among others; and founder and owner of
Angel Enterprises, publisher and editor of Jacob's Ladder Books and
producer for Dustbunny Productions. He has a short story in Star Wars:
Tales From Jabba's Palace and, together with Barbara Wallace, Arthur Loy
Holcomb, and George Brozak, created the original storyline for Star Trek:
The Next Generation's two-part episode "Birthright". A prolific writer
in the nonfiction reference field, he is gradually at work at more
fiction and film and television scripts. His greatest joy is spending
time with his son Jacob. Daryl has a web page at
http://www.geocities.com/area51/1295
Pete Manly:
Pete Manly has a degree in physics with graduate degree in "The School of
Hard Knocks" from Tan Sohn Nhut (Saigon), class of 1970. He writes
astronomy books, science fiction and fantasy stories including several
stories and articles in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine. He also
designs things like spacecraft and children's toys.
Adam Niswander:
ADAM NISWANDER is the author of The Charm, The Serpent Slayers, and The
Hound Hunters, collectively called The Shaman Cycle. Mining the wealth of
legend and lore in the Southwestern United States has become a habit for
him. The Sand Dwellers, from Fedogan & Bremer in Minneapolis, though not
part of the Shaman series, is his fourth published novel set in Arizona. His
fifth novel, The Repository, A Novel of Magik and the Occult, is scheduled
for publication by M&M Publishing in Atlanta in 1999. His short fiction has
sold to 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories,
100 Astounding Little Alien Stories and A Horror Story A Day: 365 Scary
Stories, and Eternity Magazine. He freelances genre articles and reviews to
magazines. He is married to Jo Webber, and they live in Phoenix, Arizona,
with a bunch of cats and a fat rabbit.
Jennifer Roberson:
Since 1984, Jennifer Roberson has published twenty novels. She is
perhaps best known for her work in the fantasy genre, with her
"Sword-Dancer" series (subtitled "Conan the Barbarian Meets Gloria
Steinem"), her "Chronicles of the Cheysuli" series, plus the 1997 World
Fantasy Award-nominated historical fantasy THE GOLDEN KEY, co-written
with Melanie Rawn and Kate Elliott. She has contributed to many
anthologies, collections, and magazines, and has herself edited two
anthologies, RETURN TO AVALON, a tribute to Marion Zimmer Bradley (THE
MISTS OF AVALON), and HIGHWAYMEN: ROBBERS AND ROGUES, which features
several Arizona authors. She has also written mainstream historicals
including LADY OF THE FOREST, an award-winning reinterpretation of the
Robin Hood legend, and LADY OF THE GLEN, a "Braveheart"-like novel based
on the Massacre of Glencoe, a historically documented incident that took
place in the 17th-century Scottish Highlands; plus HIGHLANDER: SCOTLAND
THE BRAVE, a novel set in the universe of the movies and syndicated
television series; and has contributed two stories to STAR WARS anthologies.
Roberson's most recent novel is SWORD-BORN, a fantasy, published April
'98. Currently she is working on LADY OF SHERWOOD, a sequel to her Robin
Hood novel. Other books under contract are a sixth Sword-Dancer novel,
SWORD-SWORN, and THE WARRIOR, a solo-author prequel set in the universe
of THE GOLDEN KEY.
Jennifer Roberson grew up in Phoenix (Central High School, Class of '71)
and has lived in Arizona for forty years. She has a B.S. in journalism
from Northern Arizona University. Currently she resides in Chandler.
She has a web page at http://www.sff.net/people/Jennifer.Roberson
John Vornholt:
After spending 20 years as a free-lance writer (writing mostly nonfiction),
John Vornholt turned to book publishing in 1989. Drawing upon the good
will generated by an earlier nonfiction book he had written for Simon &
Schuster, John secured a contract to write MASKS, number 7 in the Star
Trek: The Next Generation book series.
MASKS was the first of the numbered Next Generation books to make the New
York Times bestseller list and was reprinted three times in the first
month. Although John has only been writing books seriously since 1989, he
has written and sold 30 books, for both adults and children. He's
currently writing a contemporary suspense novel and two books of a
four-book Star Trek: The Next Generation series entitled THE DOMINION WAR.
John has written over a dozen Star Trek novels, plus novels set in
such diverse universes as Babylon 5, Earth 2, Buffy the Vampire
Slayer, Alex Mack and Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
Theatrical rights for his fantasy novel, THE FABULIST, have been sold to
two young composers in New York, and they're in the process of adapting it
as a Broadway musical.
It would be difficult to find a kind of writing John has not done
professionally. He started submitting science fiction stories to magazines
when he was about 13 years old. At the age of 20, he began to write and
sell travel articles (the first sale was to Diversion), and he's made
hundreds of sales to markets as diverse as The Hollywood Reporter and DEC
Professional.
Early in his career, John flirted with playwrighting, which resulted in six
published plays and several productions in the Los Angeles area. That
proved satisfying but not very lucrative, and, with a partner, he turned to
screenwriting in the 1980s. Hollywood was lucrative but not very
satisfying, and John has enjoyed writing books ever since.
He currently lives with his wife and two children in Tucson, Arizona.
He has a web page at http://www.sff.net/people/Vornholt/
What is CASFS?
The Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society (CASFS) is 501(c)3
charitable, non-profit organization that exists to further science fiction,
fantasy, and science fields in Arizona. This includes putting on local
science fiction conventions such as CopperCon, our annual Science Fiction
and Fantasy convention. We also sponsor the annual Hexacon gaming
convention and have participated in or sponsored regional and national
conventions such as WesterCon and NASFiC.
CASFS meeets monthly at the JB's Restaurant at 2560 W. Indian School Rd.
in Phoenix, Arizona. Meetings are held on the last Friday of the month,
January through September, and the second Friday of the month, October
through December. Meetings start at 8 pm. For more info on CASFS,
email in...@casfs.org, or check out the CASFS web page at
http://www.casfs.org
If you have any questions about the Arizona Book Festival, email me at
le...@goodnet.com.
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